Karen's Journey

Hi all

Well I wasn't going to do a post this evening as I thought I would just wait until tomorrow night but I have decided to have a bit of time on the computer after working for the last couple of hours and before I head to bed...

Yesterday was another full on day at work and brought heaps of the bosses work home with me to check over the weekend. And I must admit its not as bad as I thought it would be and theres probably only another hour or so left to do but will tackle that tomorrow sometime as I have had enough for now. I did an hour of checking last night before watching some TV.

Today, it was amazing to wake up to the sun shining! So I bounced out of bed when I woke at 8.30am, had a quick shower before throwing a load of washing on. Got that hung out, before heading down to Lower Hutt for my follow up scan. That went really well and yes she is still a girl which was pleasing to see! LOL The sonographer was able to get the photos that she needed to get of the spine and all is well. She then did another quick check of all the vital bits so it was amazing to be able to have another look at everything. We do have one shot of her laying on her back with her arms behind her head - just like her Mum loves to do! LOL But overall she was not very co-operative and quite wriggly! Her tummy is measuring quite big already so hopefully she won't take after her mum too much in that area! LOL

After finishing there, we headed up to Mum's place for lunch as it is Dad's 4th anniversary today. We thought we just have something like quiche and salad or perhaps some homemade soup with fresh bread.... but nope Mum (and my big sister) had organised a lovely roast pork with all the trimmings including the most wonderful crackling!!! YUM YUM!!! After lunch, I chose not to have dessert but instead wanted to head up to the cemetery to have a chat with Dad. So the four of us went up to Otaki cemetery for a while before we dropped mum and my sister back home and then we hit the road heading home.

I had hoped to be home earlier as I received an email late yesterday afternoon from Jude's son saying that he was going to be at the house today doing a clear out and would I like to pop up and choose something of Jude's to have (i.e. one of her soft toys, ornaments etc). I rung him up as we were heading over the Haywards Hill but unfortunately he was just locking up and had to leave but he did say that he will be back at the house next weekend to finish things off so I will pop up next Saturday to choose something. At this stage, I am wanting two bears (set) that I gave Jude - the first one when she was first diagonised with cancer and then one when she was in hospital so hopefully I will be able to have them.

Anyway, as we didn't have to go to Jude's, we headed to the Supermarket and did the groceries, and then home to do some work, whilst doing a couple more loads of washing all ready for the morning.

So now I am just blobbing out before heading to bed - I do need an early night and tonight it will be it! Well its almost 9.30pm so I am outta here... tomorrow we are going to Lynaire's for lunch with her and Kev so it will be great to catch up with them. I am also still hoping to catch up with my pregnant friend for a cuppa in the afternoon - must txt her in the morning. And somewhere between that I will finish off the work I have to do whilst Steph does the housework.

Enough blabbering and boring you all... catch ya all later some time.